Oversight investigators find deputy gang 'logo' outside Los Angeles women's jail
A deputy gang has left its mark at the women's jail.
County oversight officials touring the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood late last year spotted a new sticker on the wall of the jail's parking garage a couple of feet from the elevator. It was a black-and-white image of a grinning skeleton in a cowboy hat — the symbol of the Regulators, a deputy gang affiliated with the Century sheriff's station next door.
According to the Office of Inspector General, which documented finding the image in a report released this week, the sticker "appeared recent" and investigators "had not seen it previously on regular site visits" to the jail.
Investigators first spotted the grim symbol on Dec. 21. When they returned more than a month later, it was still there, on top of the red paint of an "Emergency Help" sign next to the second story elevator.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the sticker has since been removed — and last week Sheriff
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